Showing posts with label gasometer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gasometer. Show all posts

Saturday, June 08, 2024

former gasometer site


This (above) is the site in North Melbourne where the gasometer used to be, I don't actually know when it was demolished but it was some time in the late 70s or early 80s - only guessing. In any case, obviously it was once very prominent in the area and then it was a big empty space with an old building at one corner. Yesterday morning, Perry and I went through the gate (it's mainly a car park now) and had a look around. These are the apartments on the south side. 

This is the car park on the Shiel St (east) side. 
The apartments on the west side. They are definitely on the site of the gasometer. 
Below is a tree that would make a great hiding place. 
The flats on Macaulay Road closer up. 
The old building. It's a medical centre or something weird like that, now. 



 Anyway whatever not much to say about it all really. 

Sunday, February 12, 2023

memory lane

This is one of the weirdest Homicide moments ever for me. Delaney and Mac pile into their vehicle with an informant (played by Max Osbiston) to find a house in Carlton. What do you know, they end up in the street I 'grew up in', which is actually in Hawthorn not anywhere near Carlton, but there you go. We don't see any more of the street except the street sign - very obvious, unusually obvious for Homicide (and I don't know much about the old postcode system in Melbourne, but I do know that 'E2' is definitely not Carlton). But... 
We do get a shot of Auburn road, the main road that Scott St led off, and the gasometer at the end of the street, which really towers over the area in a way I genuinely don't remember, but I'm sure that's it. 
That's all I know. But it's something. 

 

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